{"id":272315,"date":"2018-03-12T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=272315"},"modified":"2018-03-12T07:02:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:02:51","slug":"rory-macdonald-responds-to-gegard-mousasis-callout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rory-macdonald\/rory-macdonald-responds-to-gegard-mousasis-callout\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory MacDonald responds to Gegard Mousasi&#8217;s callout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gegard Mousasi is currently gearing up for a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/gegard-mousasi\/breaking-bellator-200-feature-gegard-mousasi-title-shot-return-mvp\/\">Bellator 200<\/a> middleweight title fight with <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rafael-carvalho\/video-watch-bellator-champ-rafael-carvalho-defend-title-crushing-44-second-ko\/\">destructive champion Rafael Carvalho<\/a>, but that didn&#8217;t stop him from <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/gegard-mousasi\/gegard-mousasi-wants-showdown-with-rory-macdonald-after-bellator-200\/\">calling out<\/a>\u00a0Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald late last week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"akHeAk\">&#8220;He didn\u2019t have a great performance [against Douglas Lima], but I\u2019m not going to go on Twitter and say stupid shit,\u201d Mousasi said of MacDonald on the last episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/3\/10\/17082010\/gegard-mousasi-wants-rory-macdonald-after-bellator-200-hell-get-his-ass-kicked-probably\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3Lsn62\">\u201cAfter this fight [with Carvalho], hopefully we can get it done and he can come and show his skills,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut he will come up short. His style is perfect for me, he moves forward \u2014 he\u2019ll get his ass kicked, probably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/03\/rory-macdonald-responds-to-gegard-mousasi-bellator-middleweight-move\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a> over the weekend, MacDonald responded to Gegard Mousasi&#8217;s callout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely, if I defend my belt, another time I would love to fight for the middleweight title,\u201d MacDonald said. \u201cIf Mousasi is the champion, or even Carvalho, I would love to compete against them in the future. But I would like to defend my title at 170 at least one more time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald then reiterated that he&#8217;s not only interested in Mousasi, but Carvalho too, if he retains the title at Bellator 200 \u2013 which is a real possibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Mousasi\u2019s fighting in May there, and I think it\u2019s a good fight for the title,\u201d MacDonald. \u201cIt\u2019s a good fight for the title there with Carvalho, and I\u2019d love to fight either one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gegard Mousasi is currently on a six-fight streak, having recently defeated top-flight foes in Thales Leites, Thiago Santos, Vitor Belfort, Uriah Hall, Chris Weidman and most recently, Alexander Shlemenko in his Bellator debut.<\/p>\n<p>Rory MacDonald, meanwhile, is on a two-fight streak, having bested Paul Daley, and former welterweight champion Douglas Lima since joining the Bellator roster. These wins were preceded by a pair of losses to Stephen &#8220;Wonderboy&#8221; Thompson and Robbie Lawler in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to see Gegard Mousasi and Rory MacDonald fight in the Bellator cage?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 3\/12\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gegard Mousasi is currently gearing up for a Bellator 200 middleweight title fight with destructive champion Rafael Carvalho, but that didn&#8217;t stop him from calling out\u00a0Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald late last week. &#8220;He didn\u2019t have a great performance [against Douglas Lima], but I\u2019m not going to go on Twitter and say stupid shit,\u201d Mousasi 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